The friendship of two men becomes tested when they both fall for the same woman.
Director:
Jan Sverák
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ondrej Vetchý | ... | Frantisek Sláma | |
| Krystof Hádek | ... | Karel Vojtisek | |
| Tara Fitzgerald | ... | Susan Whitmore | |
| Charles Dance | ... | Wing Commander Bentley | |
| Oldrich Kaiser | ... | Jan Machatý | |
| David Novotný | ... | Bedrich Mrtvý | |
| Linda Rybová | ... | Hanicka Pecharova | |
| Jaromír Dulava | ... | Railwayman Kanka | |
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Lukás Kantor | ... | Tom Tom |
| Radim Fiala | ... | Jura Sysel | |
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Juraj Bernáth | ... | Jan Gregora |
| Miroslav Táborský | ... | Vilha Houf | |
| Hans-Jörg Assmann | ... | Doctor Blaschke | |
| Thure Riefenstein | ... | German Officer Hesse | |
| Anna Massey | ... | English Teacher | |
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March 15, 1939: Germany invades Czechoslovakia. Czech and Slovak pilots flee to England, joining the RAF. After the war, back home, they are put in labor camps, suspected of anti-Communist ideas. This film cuts between a post-war camp where Franta is a prisoner and England during the war, where Franta is like a big brother to Karel, a very young pilot. On maneuvers, Karel crash lands by the rural home of Susan, an English woman whose husband is MIA. She spends one night with Karel, and he thinks he's found the love of his life. It's complicated by Susan's attraction to Franta. How will the three handle innocence, Eros, friendship, and the heat of battle? When war ends, what then? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Release Date:
17 May 2001 (Czech Republic) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$5,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$19,541, 30 December 2001, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$258,215, 2 June 2002Company Credits
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Karel Vojtí?ek: Not really... Yes.
Susan: Not really - yes?
Karel Vojtí?ek: I mean yes. Sorry... My English isn't very well. I mean good.
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by Voskovec, Werich and Jezek
Performed by Orchestr Osvobozeného divadla
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Czech Republic's official submission to 74th Academy Award's Foreign Language in 2002. See more »Goofs
During training on the "bicycle Spitfires" and later during actual missions, the pilots fly in the "finger four" formation. This wasn't officially used until at least two years after the depicted events. Experienced pilots had been experimenting with it, but it would not have been used by trainees. See more »Quotes
Susan: Are you hungry?Karel Vojtí?ek: Not really... Yes.
Susan: Not really - yes?
Karel Vojtí?ek: I mean yes. Sorry... My English isn't very well. I mean good.
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In addition to being a drama, this film gives a rather nice account of the Czech struggle against both Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. Having read "The Big Show" by Pierre Clostermann, and having had an Polish acquaintance who escaped Poland after the Nazi onslaught and made it to England, I found the main story line to be reasonably in line historical fact. Thanks to a combination of computer imagery and some surviving Spitfires of the era, the flying scenes are very convincing. The detail in the Spitfire attack on the German train is consistent with real life events of the time.
The dramatic aspects of the story are entirely believable also. Lonely men far from home and facing death on a daily basis behave very much like the characters in this story. The turns of events also reflect a very believable story line. The directors do a creditable job of blending three different time periods so that there is enough continuity to make the drama of this story manageable.
This film held my interest from the start for several reasons: I'm a retired military flier; I'm a student of history, especially the history of WWII; I'm way past being tired of the trashy Hollywood versions of world events. This film is a top notch product in every respect.